cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1066667/tesseract-dev-injects-malicious-code-into-browser-to-illegally-ddos-the-dbzer0-instance

As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

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[–] 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

unless you live on the moon, which legally cannot be "owned" by any country and therefore isn't under the jurisdiction of any country, then this is, in fact, illegal in every place.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    No doubt there are some nations that don't have rules for this like developing nations.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Well there's no way they could pass legislation at the breakneck speeds of the U.S. Congress.

    Like I'm pretty sure e.g. Russia wouldn't enforce law against a DDoS attack when it's targeted at an EU/NA based service, but it's probably still unlawful.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Antarctica is also not owned by any nation, but generally nations claim certain territory and would enforce their laws there

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    enforce their laws there

    Do they really? Since there isn't any permanent base there (unless we believe in the Nazis in Antarctica conspiracy), any law enforcement is done within international maritime law - meaning no claim necessary.

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